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Price Tag for Trump’s D.C. Military Surge: At Least $1 Million a Day
(theintercept.com)
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People forget that national guard isn’t a full time position. It’s usually one weekend a month and one week a year.
So calling them up is very disruptive to them, they have jobs and lives that are being massively interrupted by a call up. When it’s to deal with flooding or wild fires, or like any sort of actual emergency, that disruption is probably justified to them.
This is definitely pissing off a lot of them, especially given that they’re best positioned to see what a non issue the situation on the ground is.